Musée de l'Orangerie

The museum is famous for Claude Monet's large Water Lilies murals, installed there in 1927. They are displayed in two oval rooms designed to surround the viewer with the pond and sky effects from Monet's garden at Giverny.

The Musee de l'Orangerie is in the Tuileries Garden in Paris, close to Place de la Concorde. It is separate from the Louvre, but it sits within the same central museum district along the Seine.

The museum also holds the Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume collection. That collection includes major works by artists such as Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, Modigliani, and Soutine.

The oval rooms were planned to make the paintings feel continuous and immersive rather than like separate framed pictures. Monet's Water Lilies cycle was installed in 1927, shortly after his death in 1926.